Hyderabad: Electronics and communication engineering graduates top the list of the unemployed in Telangana. The analysis done by JNTU-Hyderabad revealed that this was because fewer opportunities were available for ECE graduates in the city when compared to IT graduates.
The Telangana State government will facilitate tie-ups between electronic units and engineering colleges to provide training and job opportunities for graduates, and the new Electronics Policy is being aimed in this direction. While about 60,000 engineering graduates pass out every year in Telangana, 25,000 are ECE graduates. But less than 10 per cent of these graduates are able to find jobs in their specialised fields.
Meanwhile, the employment rate among IT, mechanical and civil engineering graduates is about 40 per cent. The rest are forced to shift to other fields, especially IT/ ITES sectors, by undertaking specific courses after finishing ECE.
Most electronics graduates prepare for UPSC civil services exams, and TSPSC recruitment exa-ms for Group-I, Group-II posts. Nearly 30,000 engineering graduates have registered with TSPSC to appear for various recruitment exams. “Due to non-availability of adequate electronics jobs locally, they are forced to shift to other fields. In this way, their talent is being wasted. Electronics is a specialised field that can generate lakhs of new jobs if channelised properly. The Telangana government’s plans of encouraging an electronics hub in Shamshabad will go a long way in providing thousands of jobs to local electronics graduates,” said Prof D.N. Reddy, former AICTE official and former V-C, JNTUH.
Experts, meanwhile, suggest that the state government should opt for semi-conductor design instead of production since production involves huge investments. “In the semi-conductors sector, design plays a key role over production. If the designing sector is tapped, it will contribute to creation of thousands of new jobs without any major investments,” said Prof. Reddy.
